• batsforpeace [any, any]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    that's a funny story, I didn't know BoC (or any artist) did that, seems kinda silly with how things developed since then, they probably lost some other potential fans due to that, Napster was pre-torrent so maybe they assumed file sharing could be contained, if I remember right some PC games used that approach too.. changing little config details to make the game worse, there's a larger conversation to be had here about media business models, internet maturity, and some other things, it's interesting to think about how things were perceived in the late 90s and how they turned out